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Heide Castañeda

Professor and Associate Chair

Dr. Heide CastañedaCastaneda

contact

Office: SOC 123
Email: hcastaneda@usf.edu

Education

  • Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Arizona
  • MPH, Public Health, University of Texas
  • MA, Anthropology, University of Texas at San Antonio

Teaching

Borders and Migration, Issues in Migrant Health, Anthropological Theory Today, Anthropology of Health Policy, Theory in Medical Anthropology, Foundations of Applied Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Human Rights and Transitional Justice, Health & Medical Systems, Global Health from an Anthropological Perspective

Research

Critical border studies, legal anthropology, medical anthropology, migration, migrant health, citizenship, US/Mexico border, Mexico, Germany, Morocco

Current Projects

  • "Migrant Communities: Effects of Demographic Characteristics on Placemaking under Uncertain Timelines" (funded by the National Science Foundation Award # 2149059): Examines shifts in spaces of “transit” to settlement for sub-Saharan Africans in Morocco, focused on forced immobility, legal status precarity, gendered geographies of power, and local processes of racialization (with Tara Deubel)
  • "Mixed-Status Families and Citizenship in the Contemporary Migration Experience" (funded by the National Science Foundation Award # 1535664 & the Wenner-Gren Foundation): Focuses on mixed-status families living along the US/Mexico border
  • "Legal Status and the Social and Emotional Well-Being of Young Adult Immigrants" (funded by the National Science Foundation Award # 1729396): examines social and emotional well-being of undocumented youth and DACA recipients in Florida (with Elizabeth Aranda and Elizabeth Vaquera)
  • "Indigenous Mobilities: Amazigh Im/migrants in the United States"

Recent Publications

Books

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Graduate Students

Rachel Kingsley, Amanda Leppert Gomes, Laura Parada Perla, Mahir Rahman, and Augusta Herman